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Jazz Musician of the Day: JoAnne Brackeen
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating JoAnne Brackeen's birthday today!
Whatever the musical setting—whether solo, duo, trio, quartet, or quintet—pianist Joanne Brackeen's unique style of playing commands attention. In addition to her captivating and complex improvisations, she has written intricate, rhythmically daring compositions in a wide stylistic range. She is a full-time professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, and a Berklee guest professor at the New School in New York City. Brackeen was a child prodigy who at ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: JoAnne Brackeen
Source:
Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating JoAnne Brackeen's birthday today!
Whatever the musical setting—whether solo, duo, trio, quartet, or quintet—pianist Joanne Brackeen's unique style of playing commands attention. In addition to her captivating and complex improvisations, she has written intricate, rhythmically daring compositions in a wide stylistic range. She is a full-time professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, and a Berklee guest professor at the New School in New York City. Brackeen was a child prodigy who at ...
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JoAnne Brackeen + Art Blakey
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
JoAnne Brackeen is a jazz pianist with thunderous talent. She's an original who soars as a soloist, in duets, in trios, quartets and beyond. Her hands hit the keyboard with enormous power and her churning style mixes abstraction, bop and hard bop, turning standards inside out and setting her own originals on fire. I love her playing. It's daring, fierce and doesn't take prisoners. She's all in and always finds her way out. Born in Ventura, Calif. in 1938, Brackeen ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: JoAnne Brackeen
Source:
Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating JoAnne Brackeen's birthday today!
Whatever the musical setting—whether solo, duo, trio, quartet, or quintet—pianist Joanne Brackeen's unique style of playing commands attention. In addition to her captivating and complex improvisations, she has written intricate, rhythmically daring compositions in a wide stylistic range. She is a full-time professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, and a Berklee guest professor at the New School in New York City. Brackeen was a child prodigy who at ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: JoAnne Brackeen
Source:
Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating JoAnne Brackeen's birthday today!
Whatever the musical setting—whether solo, duo, trio, quartet, or quintet—pianist Joanne Brackeen\'s unique style of playing commands attention. In addition to her captivating and complex improvisations, she has written intricate, rhythmically daring compositions in a wide stylistic range. She is a full-time professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, and a Berklee guest professor at the New School in New York City... Read more.
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Joanne Tatham Celebrates Her New CD, "The Rings Of Saturn," At Vitello's On May 4th!
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Mouthpiece Music
Joanne Tatham celebrates the release of her new CD, The Rings of Saturn with a performance at Vitello's in Studio City on Friday, May 4th with one show at 7:30pm. Make Reservations Joanne has been receiving excellent reviews and national jazz radio airplay. Midwest Record says, “This vocalist pulls up a set card of jazz/pop classics and wraps her wonderful voice around them… A jazz vocal date that’s right in the pocket!" Joanne will be accompanied by the musicians on ...
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Joanne Brackeen Receives BNY Mellon Jazz 2014 Living Legacy Award
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Ted Ricci
Jazz pianist, educator, and composer Joanne Brackeen was honored with the BNY Mellon Jazz 2014 Living Legacy Award in a special ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, October 10, 2014. The Living Legacy Award honors jazz masters from the mid-Atlantic region who have achieved distinction in jazz performance and education. Guests enjoyed a gala reception in the Kennedy Center Atrium including music by the Blues Alley Youth Orchestra Combo. In honor of the ...
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Joanne Brackeen Feb. 13th at Iridium Jazz Club Sets at 8:30 & 10:30PM
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB 1650 BROADWAY (Corner of 51st) NEW YORK, NY 10023 RESERVATIONS: 212-582-2121 Sets At 8:30 & 10:30PM Feb. 13 JOANNE BRACKEEN Ugonna Okegwo-bass, E. J. Strickland-drums plus Special Guest TBA “One of the most distinctive, exciting jazz pianists in the world" --Down Beat “The pianist is an exuberantly hearty romantic whose bright, aggressive touch produces a clear ringing tone." --The New York Times “I found Joanne Brackeen to ...
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Joanne Brackeen's International Appearances
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All About Jazz
Arkadia Records All-Star Jazz Pianist Joanne Brackeen will embark on a three-country tour this winter. Joanne Brackeen is one of jazz's most prized possessions: a virtuoso pianist and master composer who epitomizes the history and evolution of jazz from traditional to free, and everything in between; all with a contemporary edge. Joanne's unique sound was honed through a period of apprenticeship with some of the world's greatest names: Art Blakey ...
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Berklee Piano Week 2002 To Feature Associate Professor Joanne Brackeen And Visiting Artists Larry Goldings And Alon Yavnai
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All About Jazz
BOSTON, February 28, 2002 -- Berklee College of Music will present Piano Week 2002 from Monday, March 4, through Thursday, March 7, 2002. The annual series will feature concerts and clinics by visiting artists, Berklee's world-renowned piano faculty, and some of the college's top student pianists. All events are free except Tuesday and Wednesday night concerts in the wheelchair-accessible Berklee Performance Center. BPC events are $5.00 -- $2.00 for seniors. Tickets are available at the box office, 136 Massachusetts Ave., ...
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